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Author Visit Storytime: The Baddest Wolf of All? by David Sherrin

Author Visit Storytime: The Baddest Wolf of All? by David Sherrin

Author Visit Storytime: The Baddest Wolf of All? by David Sherrin Saturday, January 11th,  2025 at 11:00 AM For: Families Location: Galaxy Hall Come enjoy A Special Author Storytime with David Sherrin who will be reading his book, The Baddest Wolf of All?, create a fun craft, and celebrate the coming Wolf Moon (Occurring on January 13th)! About The Baddest Wolf of All?: Although he sometimes doubts himself, everyone around Wolf expects him to be BIG and, especially, BAD. Deciding to live up to his name and get really, really good at being really, really bad, he seeks some help
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December 10, 2024 2:28 pm | by | No Comments
Categories: Authors & Books and Events.
Tags: author talk, children's books, children's events, children's literature, and wolves.

Author Seth Zuiho Segall in Conversation

Author Seth Zuiho Segall in Conversation

Conversation with Author Seth Zuiho Segall and Rabbi Les Bronstein Tuesday, December 5th, at 7:00 p.m. Auditorium Come to this dynamic conversation to hear about Zen priest and clinical psychologist Seth Zuiho Segall's new book, The House We Live in: Virtue, Wisdom and Pluralism. He will be interviewed by Rabbi Les Bronstein of Congregation Bet Am Shalom in White Plains. About The House We Live In: Virtue, Wisdom, and Pluralism The values of liberalism, pluralism, and democratic governance are under sustained attack from right-wing Christian fundamentalists, white ethnonationalists, and economic populists. At the same time, liberal democracies are failing at
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November 28, 2023 1:35 pm | by | 2 Comments
Categories: Library News.
Tags: author talk, Rabbi Les Bronstein, and Seth Zuiho Segall.

Ibram X. Kendi Visit

Ibram X. Kendi Visit

Registration is now closed for this event. The White Plains Library Foundation, in partnership with the Thomas H. Slater Center and with the support of other sponsors, is presenting a special virtual event with the award-winning author, historian, and thought-leader, Ibram X. Kendi on October 28, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. This program will be the highlight of the Library’s city-wide reading initiative, One Book, One White Plains. In the meantime, mark your fall calendars and look into our digital and physical copies of the two books we'll be reading: How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (available in
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October 7, 2020 10:01 am | by | 6 Comments
Categories: Library News.
Tags: Antiracism, author talk, author visit, book groups, How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi, Jason Reynolds, and One Book One White Plains.